StoDiS 2005 - Workshop on Stochasticity in Distributed Systems

Jointly sponsored by Create-Net and
the International Communication Sciences and Technology Association (ICST).
In conjunction with IEEE CollaborateCom.

December 19, 2005. San Jose, CA.

 

StoDiS 05 PROGRAM

NOTE: Each regular paper is allocated 20 minutes (+ 5 minutes for questions). Each keynote lasts 45 minutes.

Monday 09.00 - 10.30

CollaborateCom conference starts

Monday 10.30

StoDiS 05 Workshop starts

Monday 10.30 - 11.15

Keynote 1

Network Hardware Algorithms [PDF]
Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University

Monday 11.15 - 11.30

Short break

Monday 11.30 - 12.45

Natural and Biologic Systems
Session Chair - David Hales, U. of Bologna

Symbiotic Multi-Path Routing with Attractor Selection [PDF]
Naoki Wakamiya, Kenji Leibnitz, Masayuki Murata (Osaka University)

Providing Both Scale and Security through a Single Core Probabilistic Protocol [PDF]
Ramses V. Morales, Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Brownian Gossip: Exploiting Node Mobility to Diffuse Information in Ad-Hoc Networks [PDF]
Romit Roy Choudhury (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Monday 12.45 - 2.00

Lunch

Monday 2.00 - 2.45

Keynote 2

Using Randomized Techniques to Build Scalable Intrusion-Tolerant Overlay Networks [PDF]
Robbert van Renesse, Cornell University.

Monday 2.45 - 3.00

Short break

Monday 3.00 - 4.15

Rationality, Utility, and Analysis
Session Chair - Monica Brockmeyer, Wayne State U.

Distributed On-line Bayesian Search [PDF]
Alfredo Garcia (University of Virginia), Enrique Campos (George Washington U.), Chenyang Li (University of Virginia)

SLACER: randomness to cooperation in peer-to-peer networks [PDF]
Stefano Arteconi, Ozalp Babaoglu, David Hales (University of Bologna)

Stochasticity of probabilistic systems: Analysis methodologies case-study [PDF]
Karl Aberer, Anwitaman Datta, Martin Hasler (EPFL)

Monday 4.15 - 4.45

Break

Monday 4.45 - 6.00

Session 3 - Methodologies and Miscellaneous
Session Chair - Enrique Campos, George Washington U.

Server Selection with Arbitrary Distribution [PDF]
Xinjie Li and Monica Brockmeyer (Wayne State University)

Token equilibria in sensor networks with multiple sponsors [PDF]
Sameer S. Tilak (Suny Binghamton,UCSD), David Miller (Department of Economics, UCSD), Tony Fountain (SDSC/UCSD)

Matching Distributed Systems to their Environment using Dissipative Structures [PDF]
Jim Dowling, Dominik Dahlem, Jan Sacha (Trinity College, Dublin)

Monday 6.00: StoDiS 05 Workshop ends.
Monday 6.30

Banquet

StoDiS 05 banquet (shared with IEEE CollaborateCom conference).